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'Monsters, Inc.' has great effects, wins three-and-a-half stars By
Bryce Casselman In the new Pixar movie, Monsters, Inc., the age-old question of why monsters come out of closets late at night to scare hapless children is finally answered. It is really quite simple you see, the monsters live in a city, much like one of ours, except their city is not run on nuclear power or hydro power, but on human scream power. So out of necessity, the Energy Company, Monsters, Inc., trains and employs the best scare monsters in the business to creep into little, human children's rooms, through their closet doors to scare them and capture their screams into canisters and then return home. This is a tricky process, because, as all monsters know, if a child were to touch you, you'd be vaporized on the spot. Sulley, voiced by John Goodman (The Emperor's New Groove, Coyote Ugly) is a big, blue, hairy monster, and is one of the best in the scare industry. Mike, voice by Billy Crystal (Analyze This, My Giant), is Sulley's short, green, one-eyed best friend and sidekick. Things couldn't be going better for the monster pair until, through a chain of events, Sulley accidentally lets a human child into his world, putting his world in danger. The monster duo then has to figure out how to get the child back to earth without anyone finding out and in doing so stumble onto an evil plan that will change the lives of human children forever. The computer animation in this movie has some obvious improvements when compaired with past Pixar films. Probably the most notable difference is in the character Sulley. During a fast-moving and exciting chase toward the end of the film, Sulley's long, blue hair moves in the wind in an extremely lifelike manner. The story was creative and very funny throughout the entire show and there were multi-layered moral lessons to be learned. But with these positive points, Monsters, Inc. didn't have the heart that the Toy Story movies seemed to. It was missing those heart-felt special moments that seem to draw you into the film and bond you with the characters. I just didn't feel connected to this movie. There are a couple of scary scenes, so you may not want to take small children to see it in a darkened theater. In all, Monsters, Inc. is a great movie suitable for young and old, worth a trip or two to the theater to watch it and rates as a three-and-a-half-star movie.
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